Sentences with phrase «gains than students»

«[O] n average, students enrolled in CMO charters are more disadvantaged in both reading and math learning gains than students in non-CMO charters schools.»

Sometimes students in regular, old inner city public schools made more impressive gains than students in publicly funded but privately owned and managed charter schools, and sometimes students in charter schools did better.

While results vary somewhat, these studies find that the students of teachers who enter teacher through highly - selective alternative routes experience better achievement gains than the students of the unlicensed teachers they replaced; comparable, or in some cases somewhat better, math achievement gains than the students of teachers from traditional preparation pathways; and comparable, or in some cases somewhat worse, achievement gains in English language arts than the students of teachers from traditional preparation pathways.

In a three - year pilot study at 20 elementary schools in New York City with a diverse population of children, students using CKLA had significantly larger gains than students in similar schools.

Groundbreaking research was released on November 1, 2017 that showed Chicago Public School students make faster academic gains than students in 96 % of school districts in America.

Both white and minority children in Connecticut's magnet schools showed stronger connections to their peers of other races than students in their home districts, and city students made greater academic gains than students in non-magnet city schools, Casey Cobb and a team of colleagues found in this research commissioned by the state of Connecticut.

Second, students who choose to remain in charter schools do not continue to make smaller gains than students in traditional public schools after their initial year in a charter school.

Despite making far larger test - score gains than students attending open - enrollment district schools, and despite the emphasis their schools place on cultivating non-cognitive skills, charter school students exhibit markedly lower average levels of self - control as measured by student self - reports (see Figure 2).

Not exact matches

More than 16,000 undergraduates participate in the world's largest post-secondary co-operative education program where students alternate school and work terms, gaining experience with employers such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

Rather than blowing off the suggestion, I thanked the employee for bringing up the topic and laid out our benefits road map — which held potential for student debt assistance once the company gained another 100 employees.

«The barrier for gaining these essay sets is pretty high,» explains Jack Lysinger, 32, a first - year student who had been a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy for more than nine years.

Students pay less than $ 5 a month to gain access to all of Descomplica's content, with a free, less extensive model, also available.

It would be nice for her dogma - immersed professor to eventually arrive at what his student came to know so early in her life, that knowledge is gained from living life, and that knowledge can be more true right now than the human writings on the topic that only go back at most 5,000 years.

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

The world students» design - science revolution may possibly result in a general reorientation of world society's awareness, common sense, and intelligence which, just «in the nick of time,» will bring mankind into conscious promulgation of the do - more - with - lessing invention revolution to be applied directly to gaining man's living advantage, which can accomplish the 100 percent physical success of all humanity in less than one - half the time it would take to occur only as the inadvertent by - product of further weapons detouring of human initiative.

Among them: determining what constitutes acceptable state tests; establishing criteria by which to approve a state's school accountability plan; defining «qualified» teachers; and deciding how broadly to interpret a clause that lets schools avoid sanctions if their students make lesser gains than those required under the bill's «adequate yearly progress» provision.

He said ideally, the center would have a family nurse practitioner, rather than an adolescent health nurse in the center, so that adults, such as school staff, could gain access as well as students.

«This event was valuable not only for our [athletic training] students, who were able to interact with a different than usual target group, but also for the attending children and parents, who gained valuable information regarding safe sport participation and child exercise recommendations,» states Jan Kretzschmar, Director of Exercise Science at King's College.

Gain New Perspectives: More than 54 million students in middle and high school participate in youth sports making youth athlete safety a hot topic for a broad audience.

Free SHS has enabled 90,000 more students to gain access to Senior High School education in 2017 than in 2016,» the President indicated.

Through the policy of Free Senior High School education introduced in September 2017, President Akufo - Addo told the gathering that 90,000 more students gained access to Senior High School in 2017, than they did in 2016.

Recentanalysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.

«But superintendents are reporting increasing needs among the students their districts serve and those needs are growing at a faster rate than gains in financial condition.»

«Over the last decade, we've transformed the landscape in city schools, giving parents more high - performing options than ever before and delivering historic gains for our students,» said DOE spokesman Devon Puglia.

Recent analysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

«In other words, the institution has more of an impact than the major» on a student's educational gains.

«But one of our key conclusions was that those children who enter the pre-k program with lower levels of English proficiency make gains at an even greater rate than the other students.»

In fact, the time management skills gained through BALSA appear to help active members complete their Ph.D. s in the same, or even less, time than students who do not consult, BALSA's Russo says.

Since the mid-2000s, performance funding programs, which fund colleges based on institutional «output» measures — including retention and graduation rates — rather than «inputs» such as the number of students enrolled, have gained in popularity.

Despite recent gains, a wide educational attainment gap remains for these students, making them less likely than Caucasian and Asian pupils to complete science coursework in school and pursue STEM careers.

In the first study to examine weight changes during four years of college, however, researchers suggest that weight gain during the pursuit of higher education may go well beyond the first year, and could be a bigger health threat than parents, students, or scientists realized.

Students from rural areas and high - poverty schools, as well as minority students, typically show gains that are two to three times larger than those of the totalStudents from rural areas and high - poverty schools, as well as minority students, typically show gains that are two to three times larger than those of the totalstudents, typically show gains that are two to three times larger than those of the total sample.

Perhaps implementing new software on your existing 2 - to - 1 or 3 - to - 1 devices will show greater gains in student outcomes than arming each student with his own device?

LBD students also learned science content as well as or better than students engaged in traditional learning methods, with the largest gains among economically disadvantaged students (Kolodner, Camp, Crismond, Fasse, Gray, Holbrook, Puntambekar, & Ryan, 2003).

When comparable samples and measuring sticks are used, the improvement in test scores for black students from attending a small class based on the Tennessee STAR experiment is about 50 percent larger than the gain from switching to a private school based on the voucher experiments in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

Numerous evaluations of KIPP schools have found that students show larger - than - expected gains on various measures of achievement.

A separate study of the ECLS - K data, also by Peterson and Llaudet, similarly showed that private school students gained significantly more in reading achievement than demographically similar public school students in schools with similar student populations.

Nor did students with low initial levels of achievement and applicants from SINI schools experience significantly different reading gains from the program than high achievers and non-SINI applicants.

Changes to the tertiary sector have seen the number of students commencing higher education grow by 46 per cent in less than 10 years since 2007, and more avenues being used to gain entry.

07, Ed.D.» 14, identified consistent themes discovered in their interviews with more than a dozen students with disabilities who gained admittance to and graduated from one of the world's most selective institutions.

Students using educational technology also find themselves with lots to gain, considering electronic versions of text books are 33 - 35 % cheaper than their physical counterparts.

These schools are receiving more students than similar schools, and there is evidence of real gains in student test performance.

* Students on average would gain 3.4 more years» worth of learning than in a traditional school model in the K — 12 years.

• An earlier study in Illinois found that students exposed to more authentic intellectual work saw greater gains on the standardized tests than those not exposed to this content.

We preferred to gain precision in estimating the achievement in each district by increasing our sample size rather than restricting the sample to 8th graders in order to gain comparability in the age of the students under review.

The researchers» estimates of black students's gains in reading ability after one year's attendance at an integrated school ranged from «somewhat less than a month» to about two months.

Pointing out that student - achievement gains are more influenced by classroom teachers than any other factor, she said the focus...